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Climate can grind mountains faster than they can be rebuilt
2015-12-01 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers for the first time have attempted to measure all the material leaving and entering a mountain range over more than a million years and discovered that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them. The international study conducted by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and led by scientists from the University of Florida, The University of Texas at Austin and Oregon State University, adds...
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No more 'business as usual' for Australia as climate change hits economy $8bn
2015-12-01 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week, world leaders are meeting in Paris to reach a new climate agreement to keep global temperature rise to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels. Yet the responsibility for tackling climate change, and sustainability issues more broadly, does not rest on the shoulders of politicians and diplomats alone. Australian business also has an important role to play and there are two reasons they should care: risk and opportunity. Climate change is a massive risk to the business community....
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How ISIS & Boko Haram Profit From Climate Change
2015-12-01 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Beast: In the dark early hours of this Monday morning, the presidents of the United States and France stood together with the mayor of Paris on a mostly empty Paris boulevard. Barack Obama, François Hollande and Mayor Anne Hidalgo each placed a single, simple white rose among the wreaths and flowers and French flags, the photos of victims and the votive candles at the makeshift shrine before the Bataclan concert hall where terrorists murdered 90 of the 130 people they slaughtered in coordinated attacks...
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See How Climate Change Could Drown Cities Around World
2015-12-01 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: This week, 150 nations have gathered together in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties to discuss combating climate change. But the global leaders aren`t the only ones voicing concern. The research group Climate Central released images of an artist`s impression of climate change`s possible effect on cities across the globe. Before and after pictures predict that cities such as Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro could be heavily immersed in water if the world was four degrees warmer. Watch the...
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Narendra Modi Could Make or Break Obamas Climate Legacy
2015-12-01 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, President Obama has not missed many opportunities to convey what a warm rapport he has forged with the Indian leader. From Our Advertisers There was the admiring essay about Mr. Modi that Mr. Obama wrote in Time magazine, and the image of them tte--tte at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, their entourages left behind. Mr. Obamas national security adviser said the two men had chemistry and expressed confidence that American...
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